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    "id": 1401697,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I plead that the Motion be amended to include the words “subject to recommittal of amendments to Sections 2, 7 and 8 of the National Government Co-ordination Act, 2013 (No.1 of 2013)”. We came here to debate. We are national leaders who are representatives of the National Assembly. We came here with open minds to share our views, whether they are of the majority or the minority. Of course, the majority will take the day, but the minority will have their say. The amendments were moved together as a “suit” such that the Mover was allowed to simultaneously move amendments to Sections 2, 7 and 8. While some of us do not have adverse views about Section 2, others could have opinions on Sections 7 or 8. All we ask is that the amendments be debated separately so that Section 2, which concerns the Chief Administrative Secretaries (CAS), is considered on its own. I also want to be a CAS one day. However, I have a problem with Sections 7 and 8, which propose concentrating powers in the Office of the Head of the Public Service, who would at the same time be the Chief of Staff of the President. Those are different rubrics and they are unconstitutional. We may approve those amendments today, but they will come back to haunt us. One person goes through the rigours of the Office of the Head of the Public Service, while another is a mtu wa mkono for the President. The President appoints his chief of staff. How will we oversee that office as a House? How will we oversee a chief of staff who has been appointed by the President? That is the point I am making. Could we recommit that Section to the Committee so that we can debate it, whether we are in the minority or the majority? Let the majority have their way, but let the minority be heard."
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